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Five researchers secure USD 50,000-seed grants from the Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence (LRF MOMI CORE), University of California San Diego to launch unique investigations into breast milk and human lactation.

The Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation has made a USD 400,000 grant to U.S. physician W. Allan Walker to study the mechanisms underlying breast milk’s influence on the initial bacterial colonisation of newborn infants and how these particular gut bacteria affect the development of a healthy immune system.

The International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation and the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation announce 2018 awardees of the Trainee Expansion Program (TEP), and open application process for 2019 TEP scholarships during 19th ISRHML Conference in Kanagawa, Japan.

The Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation and the Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford aim to establish a research centre focused on studying the endocrinology of human lactation.

Breastfeeding and Breast Milk – from Biochemistry to Impact, published by the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation and Georg Thieme Verlag, explores the multifaceted, multidisciplinary and complex world of breastfeeding and breast milk.

The Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation and the University of Western Australia launch the first version of LactaPedia - A Glossary of Lactation for Science and Medicine. LactaPedia is a freely accessible online resource towards a consistent and research-based terminology for human lactation.

New research aims to save the lives of babies living through conflict and in refugee situations by helping their mothers continue breastfeeding. The study, financed by the Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation, is being conducted by the Aga Khan University in Pakistan and the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada.

The Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation finances a new clinical study by the University Children’s Hospital Basel and the University Hospital of Zurich. The study examines how the mild induction of labour and the concomitant release of hormones prior to caesarean sections help mothers to initiate and maintain breastfeeding.

Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation and University of Zurich (UZH) establish the Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Center of Economics of Child and Youth Development with a Focus on Breastfeeding, at the Faculty of Economics of UZH.